A Wee Weenie Post
I like to think that I’m one tough mother. I’m pretty humble about most things. I get embarrassed by compliments. I downplay accomplishments. But I’ll tell anyone who will listen, or anyone who won’t (“Gigi, quit drinking the pool water!”), that I have an abnormally high tolerance for pain. I base this on a few key events in my life:
- I once took a hit off of a helium tank when I was eight, blacked out and ran around my friend’s driveway until I decided that I could in fact fly and landed squarely on my face (unfortunately for me, it was 1985 and the #1 movie at the time was Mask);
- I broke my foot during a college basketball game and continued to play on it through Double Overtime (in my memory, we will always have won that game, so don’t ask.);
- I gave birth while having intense back labor and FOUR failed epidural attempts (my legs felt nothing, but my vajayjay felt everything. All 7 lbs. 11 oz. of everything);
- That whole ruptured disc in the back, fragments pressing on nerve, Vicodin Summer of 2009 thing (I can’t even go to April-June of my Flickr account without convulsing at the memory).
Yee. (shudder)
Yet through all of that, and I never shed a tear. So I was a little surprised at myself when I got weepy during the third hour of my root canal today. Somehow the third hour at Dr. Truong’s office isn’t nearly as entertaining as the fourth hour of The Today Show. There was less Chardonnay and more tears.
I pushed aside my horrible community Blue Blockers, dabbed around my carefully applied smoky eye makeup (oh so necessary for early morning endodontics) and felt like a weenie.
And then I came home to sip my smoothie lunch and was treated to this display of Lulu’s, otherwise known as “7 lb. 11 oz. of everything,”
She was entertaining herself by crowing, “WEENIE!!!”
“WEENIE!” Yeah, yeah. That’s cute.
“WEENIE!!!” Okay, get it out of your system.
“WEENIE!!!” Now I’m having flashbacks of the Theta Chi house, self-medicating after a broken foot, naturally.
“Weenie.” The shoulder shrug of indifference just hurts.
I’m think I’m going to cry.
* What do you think of my new header? If you don’t like it, let me know…and then design me a better one.
* My recipe page is up-to-date. Check it out. Don’t be a weenie.
Love the new header! Great picture of the family too!
I used to have a high tolerance for pain too. Of course, spinal cord damage will do that for you. I broke toes without so much as flinching. But when 2 discs in my cervical spine ruptured….no pain killer out there could touch the pain. In the few weeks it took to get me into surgery I was a mess. Couldn’t so much as turn my head without blacking out from the pain. So I literally feel your pain.
Your 7. 11 is adorable tho…even if she is teasing you
I’m working on a header for you, not that I dont like this one, but you got me thinking…
you are NOT a weenie. I am, however, as the husband calls me, a weenus.
The new header is super cute.
I so feel your pain. I have bad back pain, pressing on nerve stuff. It is very painful. I am always super jealous of you after I heard about your pain because it seems like you are all better. Me, not so much. If you have any tips please send them my way.
Feel better!
I absolutely LOVE your new header! But i would more then gladly design you a new one when you get bored of it!
I LOOOOOOOVE the new header! It’s beautiful.
Lulu has more hair in ONE pigtail than many adult women have on their whole head. You all are very follicle-ally blessed
Your new header…love it! you wouldnt have needed to have mentioned it in the post for me to be like NO BLACK, love it!
Recipe page and updating that..yeah, that’s a work in progress on my site that I never quite, sigh, get around to. Nor will I ever I dont think.
Pain tolerance. I went from 5 cm to 10 cm in 75mins, all natural baby. Oh that was fun. Honestly though, natural childbirth is nothing!!! compared to what I can only imagine was the hell your back. Omg I shudder for you!!!
Love your new header!
Love the new pea-ful header!! Too cute!
Ouchhh, sorry to hear about your root canal!! I woke up WHILE getting my wisdom teeth out, and shed more than a few tears myself. The dentist thought I was just crazy drugged out and scoffed at my tears because I had “so much novocain” and shouldn’t have felt a thing. Well I did! I can only imagine what you went through. Hope you’re recovering well!!
i read your blog quite often, but have never left a comment. i love your new blog heading, but its hard to see the “peas and thank you” part! you might want to consider changing the phrase to black, that way everyone can easily read it.
I consider myself in the “high pain tolerance” group as well, as evidenced by the number of times I’ve paid people to pierce metal into my body. I have yet to break anything though, or birth anything for that matter, so who knows, I might just be big weenie.
I liked the black, but I’m all dark and moody like that. Green is a favourite colour of mine as well, so thumbs up!
I can only hope I have that much tolerance for pain come September!! I’ll be thinking of you in the delivery room. Ok maybe not, but I’ll at least use you for some motivation.
I like your new header, but I actually prefer the old one…
Have a great weekend Pea Family!
I really like your new header!!! The only thing is that it makes your blog title slightly difficult to read. But only slightly! Overall I think it’s absolutely adorable!
Love the new header! Its very fun!
I too used to have a high tolerance for pain… but then a 1600 pound horse stomped on my foot. Now it hurts every time it rains! Haha!
I like the new header but I LOVED the old one…but I also don’t like change so ignore me.
Your new header is really cute! I would maybe put the Peas and Thank You black letters against a white rectangle so that it’s easier to read. That shouldn’t be too hard…then again I know nothing about html.
I have a very low pain threshold. I heard childbirth changes that. Have a speedy recovery!
miss lulu has been on a roll lately. lol.
I love the new header!! It’s sassy, inviting and shows what the blog is about. I just started blogging, so I’m currently working on my header too.
…and I’m a total weenie!! I don’t have any tolerance for pain. Plus, i get totally squeamish around blood. It’s pathetic, lol
Love your new header!
I love the new header! Adorable family picture.
Ouchies… root canal! I might be getting my wisdom teeth pulled in the very near future. I’d like to think I also have a high tolerance, if not warm acceptance (o.o), for pain. For some reason, I love getting shots at the doctor’s office.
I like the new header, it’s very you. The background green is also fitting. The only thing I could complain about is the two of them together. The extra white in the header clashes a bit with the green, and white background of the posts.
But that’s just me, that’s my opinion, and I’m just one person.
And sorry to hear about the dentist appointment. I’m pretty much scarred for life because of all the work I had to get done as a child (gotta love sugar, eh?). Just the thought of getting a cleaning done screams “pain.”
(The Vicodin after my root canal made things a little bit more pleasant though
)
Very nice header! My one suggestion would be to put a solid green square behind the title like the one behind the picture just so you can see the title a little better. =)
Hope you’re feeling better!
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I got a box up there behind the title. It took me a half an hour and cost me $3 in the Swear Jar, but it’s done.
I think that dental pain is in another category- the fact that someone is in your mouth, hovering over you can be pretty intimidating. I called up my mom and cried/bled into the phone when I had my wisdom teeth removed,and prior to that, I had shattered my ribs, given myself stitches and broken a femur sans tears..and without reaching out for mom
I like the new header – it reminds me a little of modern floral wallpaper, but in a good way!
Weenie! Yep, they’re legends in their own minds.
‘Round here we call our hoohoos “tweenies” (long story). So Liss loves to run around screaming “TWEENIE!”
I wish I had your pain tolerance. After 3 days of labor and 2 failed epidurals, I delivered my 10 pound chunk of a daughter and cried and threw up the whole time I was pushing. So yeah…no pain tolerance for me.
I like the new header! And, I understand the pain tolerance thing! I handled patella realignment surgery like a champ (google “Fulkerson procedure,” it’s gruesome) but them I cried when I cut myself while making guacamole.
cute pics
I love the new header as well! Bright and colorful.
It looks great — very whimsical (I know that’s what you were going for)! I’d maybe just add a black outline around the white border (between the green and white) of the family photo to make it pop out a little more. That is, if you want it to pop. I read others’ comments that the title is hard to read; I didn’t find that but perhaps the pea pods in the background could be faded a little so they’d be more in the background. But, truly, it’s fine the way it is.
New header is totally cute. So wish I was not technologically challenged!
Oh, and tell Lulu that I hold the corner of the weenie market and to lay off her mama!
I like the new look of the bog.
Weenie. That reminds me of the high schoolers I used to teach. Good to know they were as mature as a little girl.
And I can’t STAND when little M gives me that look of indifference when she knows she is doing something she shouldn’t. Really gets my blood boiling, which you can’t show because then they think they have the power and keep on. Mothering. It’s rough!
The new header is super cute… and I’m really excited to check out the updated recipe page!
Love the header!
And lol @ the pictures of Lulu. She’s adorable, even if she is taunting her mother.
Popping in to say I love your new header. It shows your family really well
I love your new header! Hahahaha ohhhh self medicating. I’m known to do that that the AEPi house…
Love the new header!!
LOVE the new header! VERY cute!
I have a abnormally high tolerance for pain (or at least I think I do) as well…last year I had a hip stress fracture on the inside of my hip…and didn’t know…for a couple of months, and continues to bounce around and kick on it at the gym (step, combat, weights). We went on vacation last summer and that was when I really noticed the pain…when I stopped jumping around on it! And started to limp! It was an agonizingly slow recovery of 6 weeks! 
I like the new header! Very cute
I like the combo of peas and the family. That is what your blog is!
Don’t feel like a weenie. I went through the back thing with you and just a small drill at the dentist on Thursday hurt like heck.
Love Kathy Lee and Hoda.
“Hoda, you slut,” was said by Kathy Lee at least one morning a couple of weeks ago. Salty sailor talk like that is certainly welcome at 9am.
Your new header is lovely! I love the familypic and all the cute little peas!
I really like your new look! And I tear up at the dentist all the time. Oh well.
I actually didn’t notice the header at first and when I scrolled up to look at it I wasn’t sure how I missed it! Peas peas everywhere! It’s busy but cute.
How do you look so cute while sleeping? My husband has snapped a few pics of me sleeping and they’re always SO BAD.
Love the new header!!
i really like the new header
and i too have a really high pain tolerance…then again i haven’t been through birth yet though. i guess that will show me if i really have it or not!
LOVE the new header – it’s fabulous!!
I loveee the new header, Mama P! Did you create that masterpiece yourself?
Owie,You are truly superwoman!
While the picture is sooo cute that when I saw it awhile ago, it sent me a frantic google search for tulip fields in Minnesota (result: none) …I am not feeling the header. They peas look a little like brass knuckles.
It looks a little scrap-booky to me, which truly is an art, but I see you as a little bit more modern.
And love the blog, don’t care what the header look like really…
LOVE the new header. Supah cute.
Based on your list of battle stories, you are a warrior, woman.
Discovered your blog recently thanks to a Ash and HEAB. Love the new header! Your pictures, recipes, and stories make me smile
Thanks for all the great stuff!
I am loving the new header!
And, wow, you are a trooper. I stood through Die Gotterdammarung with a broken toe. Does that count? And I won’t tell you know, because it’ll probably make you yak, but I have a very good “botched wisdom tooth extraction” story.
Feel better lovebug!
Where are the beans?! I mean if there’s gonna be weenies, there might as well be beans. Am I right?
I know that you know you’re not a weenie because you are so AWESOME. 
The new header is fab, it looks very retro to me and I love it.
i really dont comment enough…but read every day! when i noticed the new header a few days ago, meant to say how much i loved it! very refreshing, down-to-earth, and LOVE the photo of yall. i think it fits the blog quite well.
hope you feel better! sometimes the most random things will make those tears fall. i really think our mouths are the most sensitive when it comes to pain.
i cry weenie every weekend, but to no avail…
Sorry about the root canal. Hubby has had two of them, and they are the worst! BTW, I love the new header. Pretty, pretty.
Hi Mama Pea, I just wanted to drop you a comment and let you know how much I love your blog. I hope to be as good of a mother as you are some day! Thank you for sharing your life and beautiful children with us.
Thank you Jessica! Sharing my life with you all brings me a lot of joy too
I’d say you are one heck of a trooper Mama Pea!
Love the new header!! Very artsy:D
I love your new header!!!
LURVE the new header
Argh – hope you feel better soon! I must say that I am NOT a fan of the dentist
Yikes, third hour eh? Not cool.
I hate root canals but the worst part is the numbing shots anyway.
Also, I’m planning on having a natural birth so don’t scare me with 7 pounds 11 ounces of pain!!!!
So sorry about the root canal gf…mine turned out to be a crown so I’m sporting the temporary right now. My procedure was about an hour and I have permanent half moon indentations on my hands from my nails digging into them in petrification (yes, that’s a word, I just made it up…petrified times ten). Hang in there.
Good Lord I am sorry about that! I too have a high pain threshhold, although things that hurt me personally make me cry faster than LiLo pleading for mercy on her jail sentence (I have nothing against her fyi).
I would make the ‘Pea’ more animated maybe? I really do like it! Those pictures of Lulu are priceless! Beautiful family!! Hopefully, after this we will have a pain free summer-life???
Love
Barbara
Since I know you’re no weenie, I’ll be frank (you be Mama Pea). I LOVE the overall look and feel of the new blog design, but I don’t think the pea image does the header justice
Completely just my opinion and said with love, because I think the header should reflect how totally awesome the blog is. Unfortunately, I can’t design you a new one, because I’m a weenie when it comes to web design.
I appreciate your honesty, Lara! I actually have a very talented friend who will be making a new graphic for me. So obviously I totally agree with you!
Awwww, Mama Pea!!!! THREE HOURS? Were they doing, brow threading and mani pedi simultaneously? Did you need some other outpatient surgery? What on Earth could take three hours?
Then again, i’m no Dentist. I almost faint at my cleanings at the sound of the brush starting up…
You deserve a Vic and a hot tub. Obviously, Lulu’s chant of “WEENIE, WEENIE, WEENIE” was directed at your dentist.
Feel better MP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it is scary how much we are alike. i have an incredibly high pain tolerance and pride myself on it. hence, that’s probably the reason why i drank way too much in college then paid for it the next morning. c’est la vie.